First Rule: No arguing with yourself. Haha Are you winging it or are you organized? It really isn’t that difficult to organize yourself and be ahead of the daily fires rather than constantly putting them out. Stop everything right now and calendar a planning meeting with yourself or with your partners and key staff. Place […]
Piggy-backing off of our delegation topic, create a company guide (procedures manual) to instruct others on how to do key activities within the organization. This will make the delegation process much easier. This is especially needed if you delegate the same tasks every few months to a new person (i.e. college interns). As you are […]
Family members, friends, college students (interns), etc. As often as possible get other people to do the every day tasks for you. Free yourself from the routine work of the business. This will allow you to focus on the more important, more involved tasks that have the bigger long-term payoff.
Plan the next 7 days all at one time. It’s easier to get into the right mindset once a week than it is to jump in and out of your planning mindset every day. Once you are focussed on making your success plan you will be able to devote your total brain power into what […]
How are you keeping track of what marketing is working for you? It’s crucial that you know what is and isn’t working. When you are a small business you don’t have time or money to waste on marketing that doesn’t produce results. Track it. Track it. Track it.
Pull up your calendar right now. Pick a time when you can spend one hour this week studying a marketing principle. If this is your first time then plan on the first 15 minutes being a time you can choose what you are going to study. The other 45 min will be spent studying it. […]
